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To: E who wrote (1756)	9/30/2002 8:53:26 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 7689

He did a rather good job of expressing my misgivings. Overconfidence and ambition have destroyed more empires than all the weapons that ever existed. If we attack Iraq, we may end up fighting most or all of the Arab countries. Maybe most or all of the Muslim countries. What do we do, nuke Europe's and Russia's neighbors? I've heard the arguments about "the Arab nations can't agree on the time of day and all of them wouldn't set their watches to the same time if they did". Two thoughts come to mind: OPEC and something I was told by some Arabs in Tunisia. OPEC supposedly is an example of Arabs' inability to stick together. Tell that to a guy in a 4-block long gas line in 1974. Yeah, it eventually came apart. But how long would an Arab coalition have to hold together to humble us? Seems to me OPEC lasted that long. What those Arabs said was in reference to the Arab-Israeli dispute, but it could apply here. They said this is not a dispute between gov'ts; this is a dispute between people. All the paper all the bigwigs in Cairo, Amman, Jerusalem, wherever, sign will make absolutely no difference; the war will go on. The CEOs of nations may make peace if they wished; they would not. Some quibbles with that article: It is the worst kind of moral cowardice to be for war if you yourself are not going to participate in the fighting. So Abe Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, and FDR were moral cowards? Really? It's hard to see how the "world's worst leaders" can actually blackmail the United States with the "world's worst weapons," since the United States itself has more of these world's worst weapons than any country on the face of the earth except Russia. Those words are going to sound very hollow if some leaky old freighter sails into New York harbor- -and a nuke in its hold explodes. How would we even know who was behind it? Radioactive fallout is pretty anonymous.